Get Weekly Blogs Straight To Your Inbox Creative Ways to Repurpose Household Items for Seed Sowing Embracing the Permaculture Principle No 6 Produce No WastePermaculture is all about working with nature, not against it. A core tenet of this sustainable lifestyle is the no-waste principle, which encourages us to rethink what we consider “rubbish.” Every itemContinueContinue reading “Creative Ways to Repurpose Household Items for Seed Sowing”
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DIY: Make Some Pinecone Bird Feeders For Your Winter Garden
Make some DIY Pinecone Bird Feeders DIY Pinecone Bird Feeders: A Fun and Eco Friendly Activity As the days grow colder, our feathered friends can benefit from a little extra help finding food. Creating DIY pinecone bird feeders is a fun and environmentally friendly way to support local bird populations while adding charm to yourContinueContinue reading “DIY: Make Some Pinecone Bird Feeders For Your Winter Garden”
No Waste Holiday Decorations and Gifts From The Garden
Crafting Eco-Friendly Tree Decorations with Garden Finds: A Permaculture Perspective The holiday season is the perfect time to celebrate the abundance of nature while embracing sustainable practices. By turning to your own garden, you can craft unique and eco-friendly decorations for your tree that reflect the principles of permaculture. Twigs, pinecones and even branches canContinueContinue reading “No Waste Holiday Decorations and Gifts From The Garden”
5 Non Plastic Wrapping Paper Ideas This Holiday Season
As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husband Peter then joined me a few monthsContinueContinue reading “5 Non Plastic Wrapping Paper Ideas This Holiday Season”
Creative & Sustainable Ways to Reuse Packing Paper and Cardboard
Creative & Sustainable Ways to Reuse Packing Paper and Cardboard There are so many bits of cardboard and paper that comes through the post nowadays, there’s a bigger box with brown paper packing inside, then a smaller box with the product in. Trays of tins come on brown cardboard, extra strips of packing in furnitureContinueContinue reading “Creative & Sustainable Ways to Reuse Packing Paper and Cardboard”
DIY: Lavender Toilet Bombs-Freshen Your Bathroom with Just 3 Ingredients
DIY Lavender Toilet Bombs: Freshen Your Bathroom with Just 3 Ingredients First we start by finding the ingredients we needed, we already had a large range of essential oils to use, bicarbonate of soda we use for cooking so we jut needed to source some citric acid granules which was easier than expected as itContinueContinue reading “DIY: Lavender Toilet Bombs-Freshen Your Bathroom with Just 3 Ingredients”
Science Experiment: Does 100% Home Compostable Items Actually Compost?
Science Experiment: Does 100% Home Compostable Items Actually Compost? What is 100% Compostable and can you really “just bury it” in your back garden? July 1 – July 31 Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution so we can have cleaner streets,ContinueContinue reading “Science Experiment: Does 100% Home Compostable Items Actually Compost?”
DIY: Pallet Plant Shelf On The Fence For Vertical Gardening
DIY: Pallet Plant Shelf On The Fence For Vertical Gardening This DIY project brings together simplicity, functionality, and eco conscious design to create a vertical garden using a recycled pallet mounted on a fence. Perfect for small spaces, balconies or kitchen gardens with limited ground area, a vertical pallet plant shelf is an excellent wayContinueContinue reading “DIY: Pallet Plant Shelf On The Fence For Vertical Gardening”
DIY: Mini Greenhouses Create a Warm Start for Your Seeds
DIY: Mini Greenhouses Create a Warm Start for Your Seeds How and Why You Should Make a Greenhouse by Adding Extra Light to Your Windowsill for Seed Starting This Spring Creating a greenhouse effect on your windowsill by adding extra light is a simple yet effective way to give your seeds the best start inContinueContinue reading “DIY: Mini Greenhouses Create a Warm Start for Your Seeds”
